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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The cotton, sugar and rice plantations and most of the so far exploited oil fields lie in this area.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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It was improvements in machinery and the availability of cotton from slave plantations in the USA which gave a powerful impetus to the cotton industry in Britain.
Cotton, sugarcane and grapes are the most important plantations that later will become exporting products for Peru.
The introduction of cotton agriculture produced the great plantations along Cane River.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The invention of the cotton gin made the cultivation of cotton on large plantations using slave labor a profitable enterprise in the deep South.
Plantations were farms growing only crops that Europe wanted: tobacco, sugar, cotton.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The cotton and rice plantations, however short-lived were in the grand scheme of things during this time.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Their ancestors were slaves brought to the islands to work the cotton plantations until 1834, when Britain abolished slavery in all its territories.
Cotton plantations established by Loyalists in 1783 once thrived but are now fallen to ruins.
There are many classic plantations to visit and cotton fields everywhere.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Hectares of cotton plantations lined the coast by the coral reefs.
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